Ep 5 - "Greenwashing Culture" with Toby Miller
GMU Cultural Studies Colloquium
English - March 14, 2019 16:44 - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSociety & Culture Science Social Sciences climate capitalism culture cultural studies gmu george mason university change Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In the fifth episode of the "Capitalism, Climate Change, and Culture" podcast series from GMU Cultural Studies, Pavithra Suresh talks with Toby Miller, renowned cultural studies scholar, and author of Greenwashing Culture (2017), Greenwashing Sport (2017), Greening the Media (2012) with Richard Maxwell, and Technologies of Truth: Cultural Citizenship and the Popular Media (1997), among other books
This podcast series is associated with George Mason University Cultural Studies' Colloquium Series. This year's series is called "Capitalism, Climate Change, and Culture." The industrial revolution liberated human beings from the cycles of nature — or so it once seemed. It turns out that greenhouse gases, a natural byproduct of coal- and petroleum-burning industries, lead to global warming, and that we are now locked into a long warming trend: a trend that will raise sea levels, enhance the occurrence of extreme weather events, and ultimately could threaten food supplies and other vital supports for modern civilization. This podcast series examines the cultural and political-economic dimensions of our ongoing, slow-moving climate crisis. We engage experts from a variety of fields and disciplines to ask questions about capitalism and the environment. How did we get into this mess? How bad is it? Where do we go from here? What sorts of steps might mitigate the damage — or perhaps someday reverse it? At stake are deep questions about humanity’s place in and relationship to nature — and what our systems of governance, production, and distribution might look like in the future.
— Roger Lancaster, Colloquium Organizer
Learn more about the Cultural Studies Program at GMU: http://culturalstudies.gmu.edu
Learn more about Toby Miller: https://www.tobymiller.org/
Music: Kevin MacLeod "Acid Trumpet," used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Interview: Pavithra Suresh
Audio engineering: Adam Proctor
Editing and post-production: Richard Todd Stafford